Director of the Center for Agrarian Research of the RANEPA on "the art of being unquenchable" James Scott is an anarchist from modern academic anthropology and ethnography, the author of many works on rural areas, the poorest segments of the population and lower forms of protest and consolidation. The New Publishing House was published by his book “The Art of being not subject to”-the study of zomiya, an unusual territory in Southeast Asia, whose population resisted state control for centuries.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" In mid-May, the St. Petersburg cultural project “New Holland” launched an “Open Lecture Hall”, one of the directions of which was a literary club, according to a press release. The first meeting within the club, dedicated to the novel “Guide to N” by Alexander Skidan, will take place on Tuesday, May 30. The club is supervised by the editor-in-chief of the literary magazine “Rhino” Katya Morozova.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" On Saturday, June 3, the premiere of the curated play by Andrei Rodionov and Ekaterina Troepolskaya “Chestikhi: to Love” will take place at the Meyerhold Center in Moscow. This was reported in the project's press release. The play was invented and first staged at the Julyansemble Theater (9th studio of the Moscow Art Theater) under the direction of director Viktor Ryzhakov. “Then the curators were teachers Alexandra Nikolaeva and Sergei Sotnikov.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" A trailer for the sequel to the cartoon about Paddington Bear, based on the children's book by English writer Michael Bond, has appeared on the StudiocanalUK YouTube channel. The world premiere of the film is scheduled for November 9. The book A Little Bear Called Paddington was first published in 1958. According to the plot, a bear cub who came to London from Peru ends up in an English family and becomes a full member of it.

Interview with Walter Benjamin Gorky publishes an interview with Walter Benjamin, which he gave in 2013 to Daniel Miller - it included in Walter Benjamin. New works ”, prepared for printing by the Center for Experimental Museology and the VAC Press Publishing House.

Sociologist Alexander Bikbov about how Foucault and Bourdieu have become new Lenin today At the end of last year, two iconic and consonant sociological works came out in Russian: “About the state” of Pierre Burdier and “Load” by Mitchell Dina. The first is dedicated to the emergence of a modern bureaucratic state, the second is developing an analysis of liberal reign techniques, which was launched by Michelle Foucault.

Five literary enemies of Catherine II The literary activity of Catherine II was not only a tribute to the Enlightenment, but also a serious political enterprise: in her works, the empress sought to enter Russia into a European context, but at the same time was cut with opponents - reactionary Moscow nobility, Masons and Turks who did not want to get out of Crimea.